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Over 350 organizations urge the president to support vaccines amid concerns that the anti-vaccination movement is gaining a powerful foothold in the White House.
Though it is expected that Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, will make it through the Senate on Republican votes, more questions about his investments arise.
The concerns about job losses are being raised in Arizona, too. Also, news outlets report on health law developments in Florida and California.
Groups who spoke out against the passage of the legislation are now lobbying in support of maintaining certain provisions. Meanwhile, patient advocates worry about the sickest Americans not being guaranteed coverage.
As time goes on, instead of there being a groundswell of support for a single bill, alternatives are mushrooming. In other news, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus says he may be willing to continue in 2018 the "insurer bailout" payments and cost-sharing reduction payments for consumers that Republicans have been trying to kill.
Leading conservative lawmakers say it is not acceptable to slow down dismantling the health law.
Today's early morning highlights from the major news organizations.
Opinion writers contemplate the current zeitgeist of GOP lawmakers and offer their insights on what repair or replacement plans should include and how their efforts might be viewed by the public.
A selection of opinions on health care from around the country.
Read recent commentaries about drug-cost issues.
News outlets report on stories related to pharmaceutical drug pricing.
Outlets report on news from Georgia, New Hampshire, New York, Florida, Virginia, Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey and California.
The verdict is in: being on the internet compulsively is not a mental disorder. In other public health news, a blood sugar test, hearing loss and surgical devices.
Graduates of such programs are generally more likely to be abstaining, employed, in custody of their children and in support groups than women in traditional rehabilitative settings. In other news, pharmacies are booming in the heart of the opioid epidemic.
And cost is not the top reason. The majority say they don't get tested because their doctor doesn't recommend it. "This really emphasizes the importance of cancer doctors in this process, and that patients get evaluated and tested the way they should be," says Allison Kurian, an associate professor at Stanford University and lead author on the study.
Court cases are still making their way through the system and anti-abortion activists say more cases could be harmful to the outcomes of the ones already being tried.
A Monmouth University poll finds that health care costs outrank terrorism or crime as a worry for families. Also, a Harvard health care researcher finds that high deductibles can have a very personal effect.
Centene, another Medicaid-focused insurer, also reported strong earnings in its fourth-quarter earnings report.
Democrats criticize the bills as being trivial. They would limit coverage for people who are lottery winners and those getting long-term care coverage whose spouses receive payments from annuities.
More than 150 executives are speaking out against the president's executive order, the drug industry’s strongest collective condemnation yet of the ban. In other news, the Cleveland Clinic doctor who made headlines for being barred from entering the U.S. returned to the hospital on Tuesday, and health workers say the order is affecting their immigrant patients.
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